Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-28
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the production of oranges and lemons?
In California lands are very high; in Flor
ida they are comparatively cheap; in the
former you have to buy your water for
purposes of irrigation; in the latter rains
J from heaven supplies every demand; from
that fruit must be shipped to the princl
pal markets by railroad alone, while from
this you may ship by competing lines OF
! roads, or by water to all the principal
cities east Of the Rocky mountains. With
such odds against California she can
never hope to compete successfully with
''the land of flowers" in the production
CT these fruits. Happy for the msn who
conte mplates changing his Texas home
for home in California, If he will study
these facts thoroughly before he tries to
influence his wife to sign away the home
stead, and makes move that will entail
with almost absolute certainty, life OF
hardship and poverty upon himself and
family. For the poor farmer there is no
comparison between Texas and California.
The present "boom in real estate"
In California is nothing but the
outgroWth OF shrewd manip-
ulation on the part OF INSCRIPTIONS
money sharks. They are lkboring for
high prices, regardless of the interest of
purchaser, or of humanity at large. They
can well sford-in q monied point Of
view-to psy the principal part OF the
Texans fare to California, and Ithen give
him free rides over the country II they
can get one in ten of their visitors to buy
their lands!
1t, however, any Texan thinks he can
live on climate and beautiful groves"
suppose you epend O year there first.
Lands are not likely to grow higher in
that time. That will furnish you an
opportunity of locking into things before
you take the fuel leap. And if you should
finally purchase lands there, you will if
you travel around 8 little, find lands thsr
you can purchase much cheaper for cash
than you would be likely to pay II you
purchase of the spectators. You will
End plenty of men VINO are anxious 10
sell; and you can purchase any sort OF
place you wish for cash. And here let nee
say, Never bay lands IN that state unless
ments ruin thousands there. More than
this will venture to suggest that the
most estute business man in Texas
would be poor match for the ordinary
land trader In California. He will wrap
Vic SdstO4A llhC
so much thread. Should the luckless i'm
migrant fall into the hands Of the old, ex-
perleEced sharper, there will be little
hope for him.
There are some good people in Califor-
MA, but there are more sharpers than can
be found elsewhere for the same populs-
ton; there are more uncultivsted rich
men, and more educated poor men THAI
you can fad elsewhere. One, perhaps, in
every hundred who goes to California
stumbles On fortune and is published 70
the world, while the ninety and nine re-
main poor, or possibly lose what they
took with them, and, Of course, are IN
known to the world.
II seems to me that it is time the rest
Of the world was finding out what this
Golden Safe is. l suggest, Mr. Editor,
that it might be well for Texas to ap-
point c committee to visit California for
the purpose ct learning By careful In
vestigation Just what California is good
for, and report especially with reference
to orange culture IN Southern Cslifornis.
Such report might save much poverty
and suffering to many Texans who, if
they OILY knew the superiority of Tex&s
ever California, would never leave their
present homes. Yours RESPECTFULLY,
81 AIS WORREIL